10-4-12 Coquille Lighthouse in Bandon, Oregon. I have been processing all different views and treatments of the lighthouse. I am definitely enjoying the variety. This is a single long exposure taken with a 54 sec shutter speed when there was a boring sky. I used Topaz Labs Simplify using a Buz Slim filter and then finished the processing using Topaz Black and White and modified a Black Rose Dynamic preset. I finished it off using a frame in Photoframe.

10-5-12 Another Coquille Lighthouse image - taken in Bandon, Oregon. I was lucky enough to have a friend point out the location of this stump that nicely framed the lighthouse. Combined two images in Photoshop with different focus points and converted using Topaz Black and White. I then added the texture.

10-7-12 Coquille Lighthouse Sunset - Here is another in this series. I really enjoyed shooting this lighthouse during my photo workshop in Bandon. I was there for 6 days and will continue posting images from my time there.

10-10-12 Face Rock Sunset taken at Bandon, Oregon. This is a 5 stop HDR processed with Photomatix and Color Effex Pro 4.0. I left some of the flare in because I like the effect. I realize that this is personal preference but wanted to get more opinions. This is another image taken at the workshop.

11-13-12 Bandon Long Exposure - I went looking through my photos look for more contenders for my first assignment. I will be submitting it tomorrow. This is a 6 sec exposure.

Thanks for all the feedback and thoughts about my two images. I am currently leaning towards the first one uploaded called Samish River Long Exposure but I will not decide until tomorrow.

Added Info: This rock formation is called Face Rock and to the right are the kittens. There is a folklore about this. Local legend says that Face Rock is the face of an Indian maiden that was frozen into stone by an evil spirit. The Cat and Kittens Rock are her animals that were thrown into the sea and turned to stone by the same evil spirit.

10-26-12 Rockaway Beach at a low tide sunset. We have a place on the Oregon Coast in this town, in case you are wondering about why I have so many images of this location. It is a magical place and my heart sings whenever I am there.

11-3-12 Storm Over Face Rock - this is a 5 image bracketed sequenced processed in Photomatix Pro and then converted in Silver Efex 4. Today I went down to Olympia, Washington to the Nature Photographers of the Pacific Northwest where John and Barbara Gerlach. spoke on Mastering Digital Exposure and Advanced Flash Techniques. The lectures were ok but I found them to be a refresher. I had fun meeting someone I met online and catching up with workshop friends. I was also able to get my camera cleaned for a good price and got to see some amazing images from the participants. If all goes well the next meeting will be in Eugene in April and Franz Lanting will be the speaker.

12-24-12 Garibaldi Marina - I was able to shoot this image this morning. I was finally able to get out and try shooting with my new Lee Big Stopper (10 stop ND) that I bought about a month ago. First chance that the weather permitted a long exposure that I was able to get out. This is a three exposure stack 25 sec, 30 sec, and 40 sec.

12-26-12 Storm Over the Columbia. This is the tidal flats of Fort Stevens State Park in Hammond, Oregon. I have been frequenting this area to see the Snowy Owls. On Christmas Eve, I saw 3 and photographed them, nothing special since they were so far away. We went again today and saw two owls. The weather was very stormy and this was the wonderful lighting in between squalls. This is a 5 stop HDR. I was trying to use my 10 stop ND. However, when the rain started coming down, I got too many water spots on the filter. More than would be practical to clean up since for the long exposure, I was shooting at f16.

4-6-13 Tillamook Bay - down on the Oregon Coast on a windy rainy afternoon. We drove out to Bay Ocean Spit before the rain started pelting. I did some long exposure work for my class/project until I got drops on my filter. I used 13 stops of ND and exposed this image for 357 sec ( almost 6 minutes).

4-8-13 Rockaway Beach, Oregon - this was taken earlier in the early evening about 2 hours before sunset. The weather on the coast has been stormy. This was shot with my nikon 1 V1 and processed in LR4., CS6, and Topaz Adjust 5.

4-12-13. I took this photo earlier today with my iPhone at Heceta Lighthouse Beach in Oregon. I missed uploading yesterday and commenting and will not be able to comment today due to the lack of signal. I am pulled off in a wayside parking lot. We just purchased 2.6 acres of land about .3 of a mile from the beach in Waldport, Oregon. We do not have any utilities on the land and are dry camping there in our RV. However I discovered last night that despite having 2 bars in some areas of the property once inside the RV my connection is too slow to do anything. I will be looking into a cell phone booster. But despite this fact we are ecstatic.

4-13-13 Just returned home and tomorrow I will break out the computer to try to process a few of the long exposure images I made while down on the Oregon coast. The weather was not very cooperative most of the time so I did not get to shoot as much as I hoped. it was rainy and windy which sometimes makes for great conditions but I have been trying to get over this cold that has been lurking around for a month so I was very conservative with my outings. I took this yesterday along the Central Oregon coast with my iPhone and processed it using Camera Awesome.